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Well who knows. My bet is on the very long-lived being fairly risk averse. And new ideas are risky.
by scandox 2y ago
Well who knows. My bet is on the very long-lived being fairly risk averse. And new ideas are risky.
- waterhouse 2y agoIf you're going to retire in N years, then that gives you an upper limit to how much you can benefit from learning (or even experimenting with) a new and potentially better approach, versus sticking with what currently works for you. As N gets smaller, the cost-benefit analysis increasingly favors the latter.